How to Improve Adolescent Stress Responses: Insights From Integrating Implicit Theories of Personality and Biopsychosocial Models

Psychological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1078-1091

  Yeager, David S ^a   Lee, Hae Yeon ^a   Jamieson, Jeremy P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; biological psychology; biopsychosocial model; implicit theories of personality; open data; preregistered; social evaluative threat; stress

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS;

EID: 84981263681     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797616649604     Document Type: Article

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